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  First prize: Spotted Eale Owl by JeremyChallis

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  Second prize: Testing for Xanthomonas campestris.jpg by Siduduziwe Nxumalo

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  First prize: Crystal melt of sulphur and urea by Molekools

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  Second prize: True Colours (a yellow-billed Teal Anas undulata) by BeanieAll

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  Best fynbos photograph: Brown-tipped Strawflower by AJ Higgs

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  Second best fynbos photograph: Cape Mallow by AJ Higgs

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  A larva of a non-biting midge under polarized light. Winner of the Microscopy images category 2021, Karl Gaff, Ireland
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  A California red-sided garter snake in its natural habitat. Winner of the Nature category 2021, Jaden Clark, USA
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  The supernova remnant Jellyfish Nebula (IC443) and its surroundings. Winner of the Astronomy category 2021, Ram Samudrala, USA
• A Wilson’s cloud chamber visualizing the passage of ionizing radiation. Winner of the Non-photographic media category 2021, Maxim Bilovitskiy, Estonia
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  Research activity of young scientists at the Kyiv and Kaniv reservoirs. Winner of the research in science category 2021, Bilous Olena, Ukraine

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  Complete and partial pseudomorphs of malachite over azurite spherical crystals. Winner of the General category 2021, Masha Milshina, Russia

The competition is divided into seven categories. The South African jury will select five finalists from each category to submit to the international competition. The categories are:

• Endemic species. Do you have any pictures of Endemic flora or fauna? This is a very special category for us given the need for pictures of endemic species on Wikipedia. A special prize will be awarded for the winning photograph of South African endemic species. Submissions of endemic species will be submitted to the global competition under the ‘Wildlife and Nature’ category.
• People in science. Got a photograph of a notable scientist you’ve always wanted to share? Perhaps a photograph of your dissertation advisor or colleague? We want your photos of scientists!
• Microscopy. Photos of small things can be big contributions!
• Astronomy. Photos of big things can be big contributions too!
• Non-photographic media. For those really cool diagrams you have made; or a computer-generated image; or even audio or video of a research result, or a scientific method being performed.
• Image sets. This category is for sets of multiple thematically linked images.
• Wildlife and nature. A category for wild organisms you find growing or living in nature, including macro photography.
• General. Everything else. Examples include: archaeology, volcanology, X-ray images, …

The judges will select the overall first, second and third place winning photographs. Furthermore, there is a special prize for the winning photograph in the endemic species category. For the international competition the endemic species finalist will be submitted under the “wildlife and nature” category.

All prizes will be given in the form of Takealot gift vouchers.

Prizes for all categories combined, except the fynbos category, are:

• First prize: R5000
• Second prize: R3000
• Third prize: R1000

Working out the copyright status of images you might want to submit can be tricky. The guidance here should tell you whether you can upload your photograph. If you have any questions, please contact us on the talk page. Note that these guidelines are South African-specific and may not apply to other countries.

In general, publication status determines whether you can upload an image.

• If the image is unpublished, you generally have the rights to upload it. University and government intellectual property agreements usually do not cover copyright in text or images. If you work for a for-profit company, check with your employer.
• If the image is published in a journal, you need to check the journal’s copyright agreement. When you publish in a journal, you usually transfer the copyright to them, and you no longer own the rights to the images. The exceptions are if the article is published under an acceptable Creative Commons or other free-content license (such as PLOS journals), or under an arrangement where you retain copyright (such as Nature journals). Additionally, authors usually retain the copyright to Supplementary Information documents, so you can upload those. SHERPA/RoMEO is a tool that can tell you the copyright status of articles submitted to any scientific journal.

However, there are some types of images that can always be uploaded regardless of publication status.

• Was the photograph taken more than fifty years ago? The copyright of photographs taken in South Africa expire after 50 years so if the picture was taken before 1970 then the copyright is not longer applicable.
• Some types of images are never eligible for copyright, and can be uploaded. These are images that do not meet the threshold of human creativity required by U.S. copyright law (where the Wikimedia servers are located), usually because they are too simple, represent commonly known data, or are products of nature. Examples include chemical structural formulas, medical diagnostic images, diagrams of knots, and monkey selfies. Please use the appropriate copyright tag when uploading these images.

The jury for the South African competition is:

• Steven Molteno (User:S Molteno) – Botanist
• Douglas Sccott (User:Discott) – Event organiser
• Dr. Ezio Fok – molecular biologist and street photographer
• Dr Merantha Moodley – immunologist and tissue biologist.